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The current name is Shimla.
'''Kaithu''' near Simla, was a small community c early 1930s, but included a small Bazaar, Post Office, and a fairly large Convent of Jesus and Mary run by the Loretto Nuns. A troop of Gurkhas was stationed there, about six hundred yards lower down the hill. Mrs. Oliver's private school operated then, about thirty pupils between the ages of five and eight were taught by her, both in Simla in the summer and Delhi in the winter.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121123040839/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Colonial/Colonial_Boy.htm "Colonial Boy"] by John Alton Price, now an archived webpage. The author was born in December 1923 in Simla. He attended Bishop Cotton School from age 9, for 9 years.</ref>
==Railway==
